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Salient. Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Volume Number 39, Issue 6. April 5 [1976]
[Introduction]
Despite the bureaucratic bungling of the Education Department, students may receive their first bursary payment before the May vacation.
Deputy-Registrar Robin Gilliver, in a letter received by the Students' Association last Tuesday, said that the checking of the Standard Tertiary Bursary applications was proceeding as fast as possible, although it seemed unlikely that the first term payment could be made before late April.
Victoria University students are in the worst position of all the New Zealand university students. Waikato University will be paying bursaries to students on 12 April and the other universities will follow within a week of that date.
The prime reason for this is that the Victoria bursaries section didn't get the processing of the bursary forms underway until after enrolment, whereas the other universities started much earlier.
The registry could be accused of being over cautious, but even at enrolment there were no clear bursary regulations and the sheet 'Notes for Bursary Applicants' had not arrived on campus.